Mom is 85 and I am responsible for scheduling and transporting her to all appointments. We stopped going to a very nice doctor because of issues with his staff..wrong insurance info sent to referrals, sloppily dressed staff, "Honey, Sweetie,Dear" after being asked to use her name please...new doctor is a geriatric medicine specialist, his reviews were ok, he was close and I thought that he would be respectful to patients of Mom's age..... he is pompous, verbally insulted one of her other doctors(a neurologist and his colleague) and gives out insulting handouts implying that ALL sedentary lifestyles are due to laziness....snapped at me when I told him we did not fill his prescription for a narcotic for pain because I was afraid of the side effects,so I filled it resulting in awful side effects for Mom for a week till I discontinued it....is this the status quo now for primarys or have I been unlucky? Mom has excellent insurance and can change, but I hate to keep expecting her to change doctors. It is very disheartening to her that professionalism seems to be vanishing.
Only once have we needed to change doctors, my parents geriatric doctor I thought was excellent but my parents didn't like her because she was a woman, my parents are from the very old school where men were the doctors and women weren't.. [sigh]. This doctor must had been doing something right because my parents are 93 and 97 and in good health for their age.
Francis, are you referring to the Washingtonian magazine where once a year they print out "Top Docs"? Rarely do I see many of my own doctors or my parents doctor in those issues... makes me wonder how they decide who is top and who isn't.
he actually read the hepc in my blood 10 yrs before non a , non b hepatitis was even thought of .
If you have no intentions of using a prescription, tell them immediately, ask for other options. If you are aware of her sensitivity to opiods, tell them up front.
Walking out and ignoring the Rx seems, well, a bit shortsighted.